Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Bashing Good Time

Just in time for the start of the NFL season comes Basher Bowl! It’s the latest and arguably most action packed Esurance spot we’ve done for Phil Robinson at Wildbrain. In this latest adventure, Erin and Erik face off against giant menacing robots in a futuristic football death match.

As stated in previous entries, we’ve had a lot of fun working on some of the more recent fantastical adventures of Esurance. It’s very fun to takes these pop characters and dip them into a brand new surreal world. It’s like creating a whole universe in 1/2 a minute!Brad, our resident football specialist and shameless Raiders fan, designed the evil robots. Roque designed Erin and Erik in their cool Tron-like outfits. I spent most of my time making sure everything flowed nicely, and occasionally destroying some robots in animation.

We were lucky to have Miss Jenny Hansen help us on this with some great color for the bad guys, and the backgrounds. Our rock solid clean-up lead, Kris Toscanini cut through all the art with a chainsaw this time around. This spot has the most art we’ve ever done on an Esurance and she handled it like a rock star. Also, a special shout out to Mr. L.B. for scoring the extra point.

32 Comments:

I saw this one on TV the other day and meant to email you guys. You really out did yourselves on this one... beautiful work! I was glued to the set more than usual when this spot aired... like a moth to a porch light.

I think there should be a spin off with H.E.R.B.I.E (Humanoid Experimental Robot B-Type Integrated Electronics) from Fantastic Four and that Hiker Droid. They could go out and solve crime together. The Hiker Droid could be the brash, young punk with his disregard for authority and H.E.R.B.I.E could be all like, "I'm getting too old for this!"

Hello! I met you guys on your walk thru of CN a while back. I showed some scenes and sat across from Joel R(not sure which one of you knew him...) I saw the new esurance commercials on tv too and they look great!!!! so fun!

Hey guys.Juts thought I'd let you know.I just came back from a week out of town in a small island in the caribean( NOT for the delightful reasons you might think).Anyhow..everytime we neared a Tv, wether it was in a restaurant, in a hotel, or across the street in a window, there was an Esurance spot palying.EVRYDAY we could see one.It almost turned into a joke, trying to spot the esurance spot the first!

NICE WORK!

(also, what Iw as trying to say in the first email is that this last one you have done is FABULOUSLY animated, and that Esurance does not necessarily deserve that GOOD of an animation!(^__^))